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A Good American ReviewAuthor Alex George writes a historical novel that depicts another perspective of the immigrant experience of individuals that sought an independent life distant from their homelands and families. George tells the story of Frederick and Jette Meisenheimer who decided to seek opportunities in America but much more, to leave Bremen, Germany and the somewhat familial constrictions of tradition that prompted the couple to leave. And their journey begins aboard the Copernicus headed to New York, New Orleans, and eventually to the city of Beatrice, Missouri. One wonders why Beatrice?
Frederick and Jette's story is extremely romanticized but their story in spite of its fictional narration by the couple's grandson James, represents a story of thousands of immigrants that crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Europe during the turn of the century. Their stories resonate within the main characters and the people that they meet along the way, especially those who already had family attempting to adjust to life in the US. They brought their cultural traditions and skills in order to survive. And with great emphasis, George tells of Frederick and Jette's journey from Germany to the United States as flashbacks that paint an imagery of the couple's experiences from the old to the new world. But what is interesting about the novel and how George portrays the couple's life, a reflection of their past that is embedded with history and how they were able to transition into a new landscape and assimilate into American society in the Midwest. After 1904, their life would not be the same, and most importantly, the roles that each played within a new country and home that tremendously helped to define their identity culturally and ethnically - they became Americans. And that would also entail by 1918 a challenge for Frederick when he would take a call to arms against his former homeland.
A Good American takes the life of Frederick and Jette through the early twentieth century and during the most pinnacle periods in American history from immigration to wars fought. The novel is not a historical war novel of dramatic proportions, but it is a book that shows how many immigrants established a new life that went beyond the East coast of the United States and Ellis Island that was destined within the inner states of the Midwest.
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